The reopening of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after more than a year is being met with both optimism and fear, a senior official with the UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, has said. The sole border point with Egypt is a lifeline to the world - including...
The European Commission, together with the European Investment Bank, has provided an additional 50 million EUROS to Ukraine's state-owned energy company, Naftogaz, to support the country's energy system amidst the harshest winter conditions since the start of the war. In the face of ongoing Russian attacks...
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba. The Trump administration says the action is taken "to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy...
President Donald Trump has said that he is decertifying all Canada-made aircraft and threatened to impose 50 percent tariff on those planes unless Canada certify the sale of U.S. Gulfstream products. "Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700 and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes eve
The U.S. Central Command has urged Iran to avoid risky live-fire naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz. Last week, Iran announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will begin a two-day live-fire naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. CENTCOM urged the IRGC to conduct the...
Right-Wing populist Laura Fernandez has been elected as Costa Rica's new president, with most of the votes counted. With 85 percent of the ballots counted, Fernandez secured nearly half of the votes, which is enough to avoid a runoff. No presidential candidate in Costa Rica was able to win in the first round of voting in more than a decade. A nominee of the outgoing president Rodrigo Chaves, 3
Two new polls have found overwhelming support for the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration - from mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens to ICE agents' law enforcement operations. In a survey by private polling firm Cygnal, 73 percent of the respondents agreed that entering the U.S. without permission is breaking the law. 61 percent support deporting illegal aliens to th
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order creating the White House Great American Recovery Initiative to coordinate a national response to the disease of addiction across government, healthcare, faith communities, and the private sector. The Order establishes the Initiative, co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Senior Advisor for Addiction Recovery. Additio
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order to cut through bureaucratic red tape and speed up reconstruction in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon areas one year after devastating wildfires destroyed nearly 40,000 acres of homes and businesses. The Order directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order to make sure that large institutional investors do not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families. The Order directs key agencies to issue guidance preventing relevant Federal programs from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing, or facilitating sales of single-family homes to institutional investors. The Or